Introduction to Gaffer and Arnold | Open Source VFX / CGI Basics

[@arvidurs]

I hope you enjoy the longer, very much detailed introduction video. Added chapter markers will help you navigate around. If anything is unclear, please leave a comment below! Gaffer is great, and it needs to shared! And depending on how this series goes, I will be creating more dedicated Gaffer videos. So make sure to get those thumbs up

[@DiegoKasper3D]

Hey Arvid, awesome introduction, please keep Gaffer videos coming! Thumbs up!

[@PhyreProductions]

So happy to see a Gaffer video! I've been seriously interested in this software, especially with how accessible it is compared to similar DCCs.

[@septuleptum]

As a Houdini user I don't really know why I would need this, but thanks for the video. Great work as always, I'll try to watch a bit to get the general idea.

[@ArseniyS-xr1dl]

Finally!!!!!! Thank you Arvid!!! Been playing with Gaffeer for couple months now, and absolutely loving it.

Super thankful for this video! Gaffer is a pretty software, although super intimidating in what it means: completely change your pipeline and way of working until now.

[@zohahs5276]

Hell yeah!! Amazing!

[@alexybogomolov]

Thank you!

[@paul_colton]

Thank you for a great video! I think a little more clarity on why use Gaffer over Houdini Solaris, for example? Is it mainly the speed of lookdev? Is there any round-trip potential from Solaris to/from Gaffer or is it one-way only? Thanks again.

[@arvidurs]

For one, Gaffer is free and open-source. It's more comparable to Katana than it is to Solaris. There is not a round trip potential, as it's pretty much read only (like katana). Solaris is a USD editor as well. It's also extremely customizable, the API and docs are pretty straight forward. Perfect for small teams and small studios.

[@christopher8116]

Does this work with renders like Octane and Renderman ?

[@christopher8116]

I knew about Gaffer a long time ago, although I never used it cause I chose not too that and I didn't know where to begin to learn.

[@gustavopaco2433]

i need more of gaffer

[@stevenflame764]

Looks like a open-source katana

[@Pauliki]

Amazing content as always Arvid! But the sped up talking kinda throws me off a bit.

[@arvidurs]

not sure, it might be that YT is processing it, it's not supposed to do that

[@Pauliki]

@@arvidurs Oh so sorry! If it's just YT processing the video then I take it back ahahha

[@arvidurs]

@@Pauliki yeah I had to do some copyright fixes. but reverted that back now. should be fine I think

[@Pauliki]

@@arvidurs Thanks a lot Arvid!! For this and for all your hard work all this time!